Company Watch - Continental Airlines.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Sep 11, 2006 Continental Airlines said yesterday that its application to launch daily Newark-Shanghai service in March 2007 should be approved by the US Dept. of Transportation because it "has made the best case for the route award." CO argued that there are no nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. flights to Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. from the US Northeast and that the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. has a "far larger" population than the bases of its competitors Northwest Airlines (Detroit Detroit, city, United States Detroit (dĭtroit`), city (1990 pop. 1,027,974), seat of Wayne co., SE Mich., on the Detroit River and between lakes St. Clair and Erie; inc. as a city 1815. ), United Airlines (Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. Dulles) and American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the (Dallas/Fort Worth). CO is following American's lead and establishing an online petition for people to register their support for the route. Sep 8, 2006 Continental competes for China service. Continental Airlines hopes to win the right to fly between Newark and Shanghai, saying the potential market is up to five times bigger than markets proposed by other carriers. Continental hopes to start service on the route in 2007. Sep 8, 2006 Continental Airlines reported a 9.6% year-over-year increase in July consolidated RASM RASM Revenue per Available Seat Mile RASM Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Manageability (Red Hat, Inc.) RASM Rear Admiral Submarines (UK) RASM Recorded Announcement Systems Manager and anticipated August growth of 6.5%-7.5%. It flew 8.4 billion system RPMs in August, an increase of 9.3% over the year-ago month. Capacity rose 8.5% to 10.19 billion ASMs and load factor grew 0.6 point to 82.4%. Domestic traffic climbed 7.1% to 3.98 billion RPMs, capacity was up 5.5% to 4.65 billion ASMs and load factor rose 1.2 points to 85.5%. International RPMs increased 11% to 3.46 billion against an 11.3% lift in ASMs to 4.31 billion, dropping load factor 0.2 point to 80.3%. Sep 6, 2006 Analysts speculate on Continental-United merger. Some industry analysts say a merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines makes sense because the airlines' route structures complement each other. Other observers say the potential for labor problems makes the combination unlikely. Neither carrier would comment on the merger speculation. Sep 7, 2006 |
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